The Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly feared throughout Western Africa for over 250 years, not only for their devotion to battle but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king. Read more at http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=969516523244